The Subject Screening and Q&A with Sarah Barker Get Tickets here 1.30pm-3.30pm – NIAMOS Screen 2, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU As part of our showcase of the best new work by women in film, we present ‘The Subject’. A debut feature by Yorkshire-based filmmaker Sarah Barker, who will join us for a post-screening Q&A.…

It is with great pleasure, we can share with you all the Official 2018 Festival Trailer. It provides a mere snapshot of what will be shown at this years event but we hope it’ll get your juices flowing! A BIG thank you to Patrick Foster for putting this together for us.

Join us at the 15th edition of the KINOFILM Awards Gala as we acknowledge and celebrate the standout films of this year’s festival across 11 categories. Sunday 2nd December, 7pm – Late NIAMOS, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Get Tickets here After a nine day short film marathon, there’s no better way to see out…

Support us now – last two days . We desperate need to get some more donations into our crowdfunder campaign to help raise essential funds to hire the equipment to fit out the Nia Centre to give the best projections we can. The building has just been handed over to the community after years of neglect and…

Following on from the Film Formula and Meet the Festivals events throughout Wednesday (information for these can be found here), you now have the knowhow and understanding or the inner working of a Film Festival, we are pleased to champion two of our friends and partner festivals by showing a selection of their finest crop of 2018. Niamos…

With over 1000 films submitted and some really high quality shorts from around the world it was an incredibly hard task to make this year’s selection, and we have some really great shorts on show this year for your enjoyment. We have almost 300 short films, 2 features and 45 screenings over 9 days. We…

Transitions Panel Free Tickets here 12.00-1.30pm – NIAMOS Screen 2, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Join us as we speak to filmmakers who have successfully made the transition from shorts to features and discover the trials and tribulations they faced on the way to the finished product. Chee Keong Cheung, who has successfully distributed feature film,…

Angela Torresan discusses how the Granada Centre of Visual Anthropology members combine audio-visual media and anthropology in their practice 11.30am-1pm – NIAMOS Screen 2, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU GET FREE TICKETS HERE As part of the talk, Angela will show Views of Vidigal, a series of short films on the recent securitization policy the government…

A selection of recent short films from the MA students in Visual Anthropology that will take us into the social and cultural lives of people from around the world. For the last thirty years, The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester has been widely recognised as the world’s leading centre for…

Eaten by Lions Feature Screening and Q&A with Jason Wingard Get Tickets here 1-3.30pm – NIAMOS Screen 1, Chichester Street, Warwick St, Manchester M15 5EU Jason’s second feature film ‘Eaten By Lions’ was completed earlier this year. It had its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival and went on to win best feature at the London…

We’ve delusions of grandeur and lives of cloistered contemplation, dreams given form and dreams turned sour, self-image issues and emotional problems, plus fast-breeding infections, both literal and metaphorical, in our second programme of Polish Shorts, these from the students of the famous Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. Advisory Cert 15 Tuesday…

Alienated teens and abandoned lovers, filial responsibility and parental failings, a life in snapshots and a goldfish with a memory, plus romantic interludes for sex addicts and embarrassed introverts alike in this selection of short films from the next generation of international filmmakers. Advisory Cert 15 Tuesday 27th November at 4.00pm NIAMOS sc.2 (Nia Cultural…

Following last year’s successful focus on New Iranian Cinema by the countries new young directors we dedicate a whole day to Iranian Cinema in the wonderful Nia Centre. Come witness a selection of strong and powerful short films on Iranian culture, wonderful stories and unique ideas from the new emerging filmmakers of Iran. The day…

An appetiser for the main event; a hand-picked selection box of choice cinematic cuts, featuring famous faces, award-winning animators, romance, crime, politics, patriotism, fractious families, and all the magic of the movies, in this special Gala Screening. Come and join us for the grand opening of the 15th edition Kinofilm Festival at the wonderful NIA…

We’ve erotic anticipation and the tawdry reality, romantic imagination and a sour reawakening, village gossip and a teenage rebellion, a birthday message and a night at the movies. All this, plus a house to get lost in, in our second female-centred programme of international shorts. Advisory Cert 15 Friday 30th November 8.30pm NIAMOS sc.1 (Nia…

A face from the past, and a confused recollection, the pursuit of nirvana and a chance of salvation, youthful dreams and ambitions and the tyranny of ageism, the immigrant experience and the dance of life, all in our programme of the best of British women filmmakers. Advisory Cert 15 Friday 30th November 6.00pm NIAMOS sc.1…

The pressures of childhood and the perils of peer groups, the search for the self and conformity conquered, self-mythologising machismo and one last great romantic gesture in the first of our programmes celebrating female creativity around the world. Advisory Cert 15 Friday 30th November 4.00pm NIAMOS Sc.2 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick St, Manchester M15…

What does it mean to be a refugee? To lose everything – home, country, friends, family. To gamble everything on the hope of a new life, somewhere alien and possibly hostile. To try to hold on to something of who you are and where you came from in spite of everything you have had to…

Sometimes, brevity is the soul of wit. And of concise and incisive filmmaking. This programme is designed to demonstrate this. We’ve mobile phone films and music videos, documentary snapshots and experimental oddities, punchy animations and compact dramas. All they have in common is their brief length. And the intelligence with which they explore and exploit…

There’s repressed emotions and subconscious animals, mental illness in a hand-painted realm, the parasitical pathology of a hypochondriac, a compulsive cuboid’s battle with a belligerent red ball and a terrific triffid stop-motion takeover. Plus, Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor coming back to life as we’ve never seen them before, chaos incarnate and chance-based filming mounted…

A selection of tales of childhood; of innocence lost and found, of dreams betrayed and dreams fulfilled, of communication across barricades and misunderstandings across generations, of cultural traditions preserved and the unifying possibilities of sport, in this selection of stories from across the Middle East. Advisory Cert 12a Saturday 1st December at 4.00pm GOODSTOCK, 6 Oxford…

There’s malevolent social media and toxic technology, the horrors of alienation and the terrors of too much interaction, a visit to an oracle and a confrontation with one’s darkest self, an uncomfortable anatomy lesson, and every parent’s worst nightmare, in this shudder-inducing selection of scary stories. Advisory Cert 18 Thursday 29th November at 8.30pm NIAMOS…

We’ve mermaids and angels, sea monsters and alien abductions, a macabre model village and a bus ride to the future, a nightmarish job interview and a corporation with access to our innermost selves, in this collection of fantastic fables. Advisory Cert 15 Tuesday 27th November at 6.00pm, University of Manchester (Student Screening), John Casken Lecture…

There’s young love in Tuscany and a chaotic classroom cupid, a lazy morning after, and a bittersweet comedown, classical literature come to life, and a dirty joke made flesh, a fleeting moment of connection and a fleeting phantom of femininity, in this selection of sharp cinematic arrows targeted right at the heart. Advisory Cert 15…

There’s wise guys in crisis and young men out of their depth, robberies gone wrong and suicides gone South, a journey into the night and a view from a window, and all the dark deceptions of the photographer’s art, in this selection of sinister and shadowy crime shorts. Advisory Cert 15 Wednesday 28th November at…

Memories of childhood, of lost love and life gone by, the pressures of family duty and obligation, the failings of feckless fathers and overworked mothers, a dream gone sour and a friend indeed that you really don’t need, in the first of our International Programmes. Advisory Cert 15 Sunday 2nd December at 2.00pm NIAMOS sc.1…

There’s familial loyalty and filial frustration, manipulative mothers and absentee fathers, traumatic memories and concrete metaphors, voices in the head and doubts in the mind, fitting memorials and magical exits in our selection of the best new American Independent shorts. Advisory Cert 15 Monday 26th November at 6.00pm NIAMOS sc1 (Nia Cultural Centre), Chichester Road, Warwick…

Presented in Association with the Alliance Francaise and Europia The thoughtless cruelty of children, a relationship breaking down, and a pick-up gone sour, shifts of perspective and visions of possible futures, cops in crisis, and soldiers in search of love, in this collection of Gallic shorts. Advisory Cert 18 Thursday 29th November at 6.00pm…

Presented in Association with Europia We’ve got a heist with a bizarre twist, a study of guilt in a police officer, the job interview from hell, two tales of extra-marital affairs gone bad, a tragic miscarriage and the process of divorce through a child’s eyes, all coming together in our Deutsch denomination…

Presented in Association with the Instituto Cervantes and Europia We’ve methods of mourning and coping with grieving, flights from responsibility and retreats from reality, a past ever-present and a future on hold, romantic regret and parental neglect, unrealistic expectations and dancing on air, in this year’s Spanish selection. Advisory Cert…

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